Ectoplasm

[David Casseres]

Jan Klimkowski sez, after some good information about the Thule Society 
and other Nazi mystical-racism shit,

>OK - we're all intelligent human beings.  This is funny, yeah?  Hitler   
>had advanced plans for abolishing Christmas, and Black Ops knew this.  So   
>why did wartime propaganda pass up the obvious opportunity to portray   
>Uncle Adolf as a literal rather than a symbolic Satanist?

I suspect Western propagandists had to tread lightly on the 
occult/Satanic aspects of Nazism because of highly placed mystical-right 
goofballs in their own governments -- and worse, a desire to portray 
Nazism as primarily a military/nationalistic threat and to downplay the 
ideological, make a joke out of it as in Spike Jones' "Der Fuehrer's 
Face."  And over in the Soviet sphere they had their own agenda which 
called for Naziism to be an ideological and political crime, not one of 
spiritual disease and frank insanity.

Generally speaking, lots of motivation everywhere for a conspiracy of 
silence -- not just about the occultism and the weird pseudoscience, but 
about the death camps and many other examples of war against civilian 
population -- Why? because apart from overstepping the bounds of 
international propriety for a recently defeated nation, the Third Reich 
was a marvelous laboratory where They could see all sorts of fascinating 
ideas tried out, just as Fascist Spain had earlier been a laboratory for 
the Nazis -- and for Them.  Quite a lot of the Nazis' program looked 
pretty good to Business as Usual, actually (even that 
Rassenwissenschaft!), so there was no profit in painting them as a bunch 
of wackoes and sadists and genocidal mass-murderers.  It would have 
detracted from the main order of business, which was to get these clowns 
back in line and working for Them as they were supposed to in the first 
place.


Cheers,
David